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8 years of product management experience at large companies and small start-ups, creating and shipping
meaningful products, and building teams where we make each other laugh.
Work Experience

Paxata, 2014 present, Redwood City, CA

Spec'd, managed, and shipped two significant applications on the Paxata data preparation platform, along with
regular monthly release of features and bug fixes for the core platform. Primary point of contact for for customer
support and business teams, coordinated release planning, and facilitated bug triage across three small
engineering teams. Created demos, wrote blog posts, and recorded videos for customers and prospects.
Data Library: Persistent columnar data store for business analysts to bring in and manage large datasets from
a variety of sources for collaboration and re-use in data preparation projects.
Includes: HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System), Apache Parquet, relational databases, XML and JSON
parsing, Salesforce, publishing to Hive/Impala, Kerberos
Autom ation Hub - Management console and scheduling interface enabling data owners and business
analysts to set up recurring data ingestion and data transformation tasks without scripting.
Includes: Apache Spark, batch processing, mixed workload management

Socrata 2012 2013, Seattle, WA

Gathered requirements, defined vision and recruited team to build the first application on Socrata's open data
platform into an independent business unit. Lead training for sales, marketing and customers. Involved heavily
with customer support, on-call rotation, and event planning. Helped grow company from 10 to 85 with a fun and
collaborative culture.
GovStat: Interactive visualization dashboard to communicate data-driven local government goals to their
constituents. Drag-and-drop authoring for data and policy owners to tell a data-driven story without coding.

Microsoft, summer 2006, 2007- 2012, Redmond, WA

Bing M onetization: Increased revenue by 6% for search text ads with new features and style changes,
conducted experiments and analyzed results with A/B testing, managed display ads for travel properties, liaison
for partners.
Live Labs: Lead 75 person project team to successfully ship and gracefully shut down Pivot, a data visualization
application. Presented to customers, internal teams, and executives to evangelize the product.
W indows Server Group Policy: Defined and shipped command line interface and .NET APIs in PowerShell
as part of Windows Server 2008 R2 to millions of customers, created customer engagement community with 30
enterprise and mid-market customers, gave popular talks to customers and internal community at conferences.
W indows Hom e Server: Designed photo-sharing feature for v0 of Windows Home Server.
Product Management Experience
Designing and shipping products
Defined and socialized scenarios and personas for new and existing products
Iterated on design and prototypes with UX, development, and test teams
Wrote feature specs and product design documents
Conducted experiments for A/B testing on massive online service
Managed releases at various release cadences (weekly, monthly, every 3 years)
Deployed to cloud, on-premise, Software-as-a-Service, downloadable application, physical disk
Designed for 508 compliance, browser compatibility, localization in UTF-8 languages, scalability, security

Helping teams work together

Acted as liaison to customer success, operations, and other engineering teams
Communicated vision across engineering, marketing, and sales teams and to external partners
Encouraged experimentation and collaboration across teams and disciplines
Created and sustained internal processes for planning, development, and deployment
Managed release process through design, implementation, testing and deploy
Lead retrospectives and made measurable changes
Established fun traditions for teams to learn about each other, celebrate milestones, and bond
Selling products
Researched competitors and market to influence product roadmap and enable sales teams
Evangelized products at industry and user conferences, presented to industry analysts
Built collateral and customer communication (blogs, videos, whitepapers, help documentation)
W orking with customers
Interviewed current and potential customers to understand their stories and use cases
Ran usability studies with wireframes and prototypes
Lead beta programs with customers and gathered feedback
Managed and resolved customer support tickets
Conducted in-person training and consulting
Created and engaged with active customer communities
Education
UC Berkeley College of Engineering, 2002- 2007, Berkeley, CA
M aster of Science (Computer Science) Center of Entrepreneurship and Technology Certificate
Bachelor of Science (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)
Miscellaneous
Front-of-house manager for a formal theater and an outdoor rock concert venue throughout college
Undergraduate research intern at Intel Research Berkeley
Recorded how-to videos (10,000+ views) and increased blog to top 2% of technical Microsoft blogs
Public Speaking
Tableau Conference, Odd Salon, The Moth, Grace Hopper Conference, various Microsoft Conferences
Interests
Telling stories, traveling, learning new languages, folklore, tennis, stand-up comedy, the NBA, hiking, yoga
Volunteering
Code 2040, Geek Girl Con, Ignite, Expand Your Horizons